linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/5] sched: make struct task

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Mon, 8 Feb 2021 17:52:45 +0300
From:   Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:     mingo@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] sched: make struct task_struct::state 32-bit

On Mon, Feb 08, 2021 at 05:30:25PM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 08, 2021 at 11:34:18AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 06, 2021 at 06:18:32PM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> > 
> > > Silently delete "extern" from prototypes.
> > 
> > NAK, extern is right.
> 
> Extern is only necessary for variables.

Specifically C17, 6.2.2 p5 (linkage of identifiers):

	if the declaration of an identifier for a function has no
	storage-class specifier, its linkage is determined exactly as if
	it were declared with the storage-class specifier "extern".

This is why nothing happens if "extern" is deleted.